It's pretty easy to play.mkvs on Windows with the right codec. But then again you still wouldn't be able to stream it over to the PS3 that way.
All my video has been in.mkv containers for several years now, and I haven't had issues with it on XP, Vista or 7. Just chuck CCCP on there and call it a day.
I've never understood NASA's fear of danger in space flight. I mean, when you get right down to it, as an astronaut you're strapping yourself to the top of a giant tube full of explosives that's burning at one end while it flies to a place where there's nothing to breathe and more radiation than you'll find just about anywhere outside of a particle accelerator. Shit happens, and if the people who are taking those risks are okay with them, than to hell with the rest of it.
I have the feeling that space is going to be colonized by other governments (i.e. China) or private enterprises, because our own government is so frightened of everything that could possibly go wrong, ever, that it doesn't have the wherewithal for serious manned missions anymore.
I don't mena to diminish the problem, or make implications about the other victims. But it looks like the only reason this one ended in an arrest is because the victim was a former legal professional with financial backing and a significant monetary interest in maintaining his, err, portfolio.
No, but the person who sold them that CD should not be able to, at some arbitrary point down the road, barge into their house and stuff it into a shredder.
As someone who was intimately involved with that process (A couple of the 'Mechs in the NBT-Hardcore mod were modeled and textured by yours truly, and I beta-tested a couple of the MekTek packs), the Mech4 community expansions were neither easy or terribly open. The first team to reverse-engineer the game's file formats was very territorial about their work and in several cases attempted to publicly e-crucify "traitors" who leaked screenshots of stuff in beta, or passed along information on the modding tools. I recall one of their devs stalling development and threatening to remove one 'Mech from the pack every day until somebody confessed to leaking the mod tools to a third party. The drama got so bad that the guy who first cracked the game's files left that team and took his tools to one of the online leagues. You should have seen the fireworks when that happened...
No shit... I'm taking a (required) summer course on architectural theory and my eyes were permanently crossed by the time we got to Heidegger. What's all this about "the thinging of things?" I'll stick with Vitruvius, thanks.
As for the Voynich Manuscript, the only explanations that make sense to me are that it's a constructed language of some kind, or an elaborate joke played on us by our Renaissance-era European forbears. Though I do like XKCD's "RPG handbook" theory...
As an architecture undergrad I must say that shockingly few of my teachers have any understanding at all of what they are teaching. The schools that teach practical fields and applied sciences seem to be heavily populated with professors who chose to teach because they preferred not to deal with the realities of profressional practice. Fields like yours, and others with a focus primarily on research, don't have that problem.
Good for you that your professors know what they're doing! May you learn from then rather than in spite of them...
Actually, there are some performance benefits to E85, provided the engine is tuned to take advantage of it. Because ethanol boosts the octane rating of the fuel (something like 105 octane or so) you can bump compression up considerably (12:1 or more, versus the 10:1 that most gasoline engines use), advance ignition timing, and run higher levels of boost in a turbo- or supercharged engine. Ethanol also cools the intake air when it's injected into the intake manifold, which further increases power output. In the Koenigsegg CCXR, running on E85 boosts power output from a mere 806hp to a much more respectable 1018hp (!!!)
Of course, all of these things mean that your engine is going to be slurpling *more* fuel, and gas mileage is going to decline even further, but just about the only good thing I can say about ethanol as a fuel additive is that it's basically cheap-as-dirt race gas you can get at the corner station.
How to Boil Water might be an equivalent. It's a goos primer on food prep, but it's also got great recipes in it. I got it as a going-away-to-college gift.
It's amazing, though, how many people don't even know how to do things for themselves. I spent the first three years of college in what was essentially a University-funded co-op house, part of the time as kitchen manager, and it shocked me to see how many people couldn't make food. I don't mean they were bad cooks, but that they didn't know how to do basic things like cook pasta or brown meat, and didn't want to learn (naturally, they all picked shifts as lunch cooks...)
There's going to be a lot of dead weight in my generation, it seems...
6'2" here. I fit in a Honda CRX, with room to spare. While wearing a helmet, to boot!
Drive a car.:P
Incidentally, I'm not sure what you mean about EPA mileage. I have never driven a car that couldn't beat it's EPA estimated mileage by a fair margin, even with a lead-foot like me at the wheel. If anything, the tests are overly conservative.
What are you doing on Slashdot? I know that we love car analogies, but Nanobusas and Fisker Karma double-entendres require a degree of car-guy knowledge not usually found in computer geeks.
You were reminded of the Diamond Age, and didn't even stop to think about the Drummers? shifting programmable nanotattoos were one of their defining features
Well, that and massive orgies leading to spontaneous combustion in the name of data analysis.
Oh, also that a DVI port would be physically bigger than the VGA port and they've got no room for it. Which is true to a degree; there's not more than a couple millimeters of unused space on the edges of this thing; but if they'd just give up the 90's and KILL THE FREAKING MODEM PORT there'd be more than enough room.
In fact, If I recall, Lenovo's justification for the VGA port was that a lot of projectors still don't support DVI.:) Speaking from my personal experience, that seems justifiable; I work at a University research and convention center built a couple of years ago, and none of our display systems have DVI-in. I've done more than my share of scrambling around the back office for the right Mini-DVI-to-VGA adapter when a presenter brings in their MacBook.
That said, I would prefer a DVI port, and was a little irritated that the best value for my money didn't have one. But I can deal with it.
FireWire, video out, and camera conceded. I don't have any use for them, so they didn't matter that much to me. There is a slimline camera attachment available for about $80. Does anybody even use FireWire anymore?
As for the GPU, though, you're very wrong. the Quadro FX 570M is an 8600M with fancy drivers -- exactly what the MacBook Pro had at the time, down to the amount and speed of the video RAM. That card was in fact one of the things I was set on getting with my laptop. The case features a lightweight magnesium alloy frame and battery life is competitive with the MacBooks.
The chips and ports you've mentioned cost, I'd guess, about $25 to Lenovo tops. If I *really* needed DVI, I might have looked elsewhere, but at the end of the day there's not nearly enough difference in specs and quality to justify the cost difference between my laptop and a 15" MBP.
Funny, because when I ordered my Thinkpad T61p last year, I specced out an equivalent MacBook Pro and it cost about $600 more than the Black Slab O' Doom. Sure, it isn't made out of shiny brushed aluminum and it doesn't have a battery that will last for a 1000 charges (and then be un-serviceable without voiding the warranty on the whole damn thing) but I doubt anobody would impugn the quality of the Thinkpads, Lenovo or IBM.
Generally speaking, Dell isn't a good value, for sure, but if you shop around a bit you can get better system for a fair chunk of change less than a Mac.
FWIW, I drive an 18 year old econobox with an independent double-wishbone suspension setup at all four corners of the vehicle (thank you Mr. Honda for that!) and reasonably sticky tires (thank you Tire Rack for those), and even the way that the Stone-Age live axle rear setup is tuned on your average late-model Mustang is such that the car actually has pretty decent manners, or so I'm told. We've come a long way from the Ralph Nader Special CORVAIR-SWING-AXLE-OF-DOOM suspension setup.
Unless you're one of those poor fools who bought domestic in the 80's, anything that's still on the road and isn't a collector's trailer queen should be leaps and bounds ahead of the stuff we drove in the 50's and 60's.
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It's pretty easy to play .mkvs on Windows with the right codec. But then again you still wouldn't be able to stream it over to the PS3 that way.
.mkv containers for several years now, and I haven't had issues with it on XP, Vista or 7. Just chuck CCCP on there and call it a day.
All my video has been in
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of... err. Oh.
I've never understood NASA's fear of danger in space flight. I mean, when you get right down to it, as an astronaut you're strapping yourself to the top of a giant tube full of explosives that's burning at one end while it flies to a place where there's nothing to breathe and more radiation than you'll find just about anywhere outside of a particle accelerator. Shit happens, and if the people who are taking those risks are okay with them, than to hell with the rest of it.
I have the feeling that space is going to be colonized by other governments (i.e. China) or private enterprises, because our own government is so frightened of everything that could possibly go wrong, ever, that it doesn't have the wherewithal for serious manned missions anymore.
It's that, in this situation, the important thing to prevent the transnationals from building a space elevator on Olympus Mons.
...Well, also that the Russian commander will be a total skank, but hey, that's details.
I don't mena to diminish the problem, or make implications about the other victims. But it looks like the only reason this one ended in an arrest is because the victim was a former legal professional with financial backing and a significant monetary interest in maintaining his, err, portfolio.
"Sleazy Well-Funded Ex-Attorney Domain Name Speculator Pushes Arrest Of Crooked Hacker." Seriously, the victim here is a cybersquatter.
No, but the person who sold them that CD should not be able to, at some arbitrary point down the road, barge into their house and stuff it into a shredder.
As someone who was intimately involved with that process (A couple of the 'Mechs in the NBT-Hardcore mod were modeled and textured by yours truly, and I beta-tested a couple of the MekTek packs), the Mech4 community expansions were neither easy or terribly open. The first team to reverse-engineer the game's file formats was very territorial about their work and in several cases attempted to publicly e-crucify "traitors" who leaked screenshots of stuff in beta, or passed along information on the modding tools. I recall one of their devs stalling development and threatening to remove one 'Mech from the pack every day until somebody confessed to leaking the mod tools to a third party. The drama got so bad that the guy who first cracked the game's files left that team and took his tools to one of the online leagues. You should have seen the fireworks when that happened...
No shit... I'm taking a (required) summer course on architectural theory and my eyes were permanently crossed by the time we got to Heidegger. What's all this about "the thinging of things?" I'll stick with Vitruvius, thanks.
As for the Voynich Manuscript, the only explanations that make sense to me are that it's a constructed language of some kind, or an elaborate joke played on us by our Renaissance-era European forbears. Though I do like XKCD's "RPG handbook" theory...
I could make plenty of Kongbucks uploading to the CIC datab-- err, Intellipedia.
As an architecture undergrad I must say that shockingly few of my teachers have any understanding at all of what they are teaching. The schools that teach practical fields and applied sciences seem to be heavily populated with professors who chose to teach because they preferred not to deal with the realities of profressional practice. Fields like yours, and others with a focus primarily on research, don't have that problem.
Good for you that your professors know what they're doing! May you learn from then rather than in spite of them...
Actually, there are some performance benefits to E85, provided the engine is tuned to take advantage of it. Because ethanol boosts the octane rating of the fuel (something like 105 octane or so) you can bump compression up considerably (12:1 or more, versus the 10:1 that most gasoline engines use), advance ignition timing, and run higher levels of boost in a turbo- or supercharged engine. Ethanol also cools the intake air when it's injected into the intake manifold, which further increases power output. In the Koenigsegg CCXR, running on E85 boosts power output from a mere 806hp to a much more respectable 1018hp (!!!)
Of course, all of these things mean that your engine is going to be slurpling *more* fuel, and gas mileage is going to decline even further, but just about the only good thing I can say about ethanol as a fuel additive is that it's basically cheap-as-dirt race gas you can get at the corner station.
How to Boil Water might be an equivalent. It's a goos primer on food prep, but it's also got great recipes in it. I got it as a going-away-to-college gift.
It's amazing, though, how many people don't even know how to do things for themselves. I spent the first three years of college in what was essentially a University-funded co-op house, part of the time as kitchen manager, and it shocked me to see how many people couldn't make food. I don't mean they were bad cooks, but that they didn't know how to do basic things like cook pasta or brown meat, and didn't want to learn (naturally, they all picked shifts as lunch cooks...)
There's going to be a lot of dead weight in my generation, it seems...
6'2" here. I fit in a Honda CRX, with room to spare. While wearing a helmet, to boot!
:P
Drive a car.
Incidentally, I'm not sure what you mean about EPA mileage. I have never driven a car that couldn't beat it's EPA estimated mileage by a fair margin, even with a lead-foot like me at the wheel. If anything, the tests are overly conservative.
What are you doing on Slashdot? I know that we love car analogies, but Nanobusas and Fisker Karma double-entendres require a degree of car-guy knowledge not usually found in computer geeks.
Then again, I'm here too.
...did you get your hands blown off at the wrists the last time you used the horn?
"Unfortunately, the entity that killed him ceased to exist the instant after the murder occured."
Sounds like a Grandfather Paradox problem to me. Just get the Future Police to deploy the Closed Timelike Loop Cutters and you're golden.
You were reminded of the Diamond Age, and didn't even stop to think about the Drummers? shifting programmable nanotattoos were one of their defining features
Well, that and massive orgies leading to spontaneous combustion in the name of data analysis.
...I wonder who would be receptive to bribes at MPAA HQ?
Oh, also that a DVI port would be physically bigger than the VGA port and they've got no room for it. Which is true to a degree; there's not more than a couple millimeters of unused space on the edges of this thing; but if they'd just give up the 90's and KILL THE FREAKING MODEM PORT there'd be more than enough room.
In fact, If I recall, Lenovo's justification for the VGA port was that a lot of projectors still don't support DVI. :) Speaking from my personal experience, that seems justifiable; I work at a University research and convention center built a couple of years ago, and none of our display systems have DVI-in. I've done more than my share of scrambling around the back office for the right Mini-DVI-to-VGA adapter when a presenter brings in their MacBook.
That said, I would prefer a DVI port, and was a little irritated that the best value for my money didn't have one. But I can deal with it.
I'm not deluding myself at all.
FireWire, video out, and camera conceded. I don't have any use for them, so they didn't matter that much to me. There is a slimline camera attachment available for about $80. Does anybody even use FireWire anymore? As for the GPU, though, you're very wrong. the Quadro FX 570M is an 8600M with fancy drivers -- exactly what the MacBook Pro had at the time, down to the amount and speed of the video RAM. That card was in fact one of the things I was set on getting with my laptop. The case features a lightweight magnesium alloy frame and battery life is competitive with the MacBooks.
The chips and ports you've mentioned cost, I'd guess, about $25 to Lenovo tops. If I *really* needed DVI, I might have looked elsewhere, but at the end of the day there's not nearly enough difference in specs and quality to justify the cost difference between my laptop and a 15" MBP.
Funny, because when I ordered my Thinkpad T61p last year, I specced out an equivalent MacBook Pro and it cost about $600 more than the Black Slab O' Doom. Sure, it isn't made out of shiny brushed aluminum and it doesn't have a battery that will last for a 1000 charges (and then be un-serviceable without voiding the warranty on the whole damn thing) but I doubt anobody would impugn the quality of the Thinkpads, Lenovo or IBM.
Generally speaking, Dell isn't a good value, for sure, but if you shop around a bit you can get better system for a fair chunk of change less than a Mac.
FWIW, I drive an 18 year old econobox with an independent double-wishbone suspension setup at all four corners of the vehicle (thank you Mr. Honda for that!) and reasonably sticky tires (thank you Tire Rack for those), and even the way that the Stone-Age live axle rear setup is tuned on your average late-model Mustang is such that the car actually has pretty decent manners, or so I'm told. We've come a long way from the Ralph Nader Special CORVAIR-SWING-AXLE-OF-DOOM suspension setup.
Unless you're one of those poor fools who bought domestic in the 80's, anything that's still on the road and isn't a collector's trailer queen should be leaps and bounds ahead of the stuff we drove in the 50's and 60's.
You can pry my steering wheel out of my cold, dead, fingers.
Actually, I imagine the EMTs will be ones doing that.